OT005
Autonomous ocean platform applications in biological oceanography and wildlife ecology

Session ID#: 255043

Session Description:
Autonomous ocean platforms (e.g., gliders, buoys, moorings, floats) and their sensors have been proliferating in the last decade. Sensors that measure organisms and biological processes are commercially available and many new studies have been published on their application to studying ocean biology in the last five years. Bioacoustics, bio-optics, imaging and video camera devices mounted on autonomous platforms are able to collect information on ocean wildlife in the water column in parts of the ocean that were not accessible before. New and improved sensors are emerging as both platforms and sensors become more efficient, particularly in power consumption, allowing for longer and deeper deployments that sample biology at new space-time scales. Examples include censusing phytoplankton and zooplankton, detecting tagged or sound-producing taxa, and studying food web, predator-prey and habitat-use dynamics. This session invites presentations on research and development into the application of autonomous vehicles and their sensors to biological oceanography and marine ecology. Topics may include, but are not limited to: primary and secondary production; phytoplankton, zooplankton or vertebrate ecology; passive acoustic monitoring; microbial ecology and deep sea ecology.  
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • Marine Ecology and Biodiversity -
  • Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry -
Index Terms:

4259 Ocean acoustics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4264 Ocean optics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair:  Maxime Daviray, University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France
Primary Chair:  Kimberley Davies, University of New Brunswick, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Saint John, NB, Canada
Co-Chair:  Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean & Environment, Columbia, United States
 
The development of Single-Turnover Active Fluorometry (STAF) for autonomous assessment of phytoplankton photosynthetic activity and primary production at high spatial and temporal resolution (1889386)
Nina Schuback1,2, Mark Moore3, Alison Chase4, Raul R. Costa5, Giselle F Firme6, Ben Fisher7, Patrick Clifton Gray8, Tom Jordan9, Carlos R.B. Mendes5, Gavin H Tilstone9 and Kevin Oxborough10,11, (1)Chelsea Technologies Ltd, Yateley, United Kingdom, (2)Swiss Polar Institute, Sion, Switzerland, (3)University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (5)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Instituto de Oceanografia, Rio Grande, Brazil, (6)University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, Australia, (7)Heriot-Watt University, Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (9)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (10)Chelsea Technologies Ltd, Yately, United Kingdom, (11)University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
Validation of glider-mounted shadowgraph imagery for measuring copepod concentration and diversity (1966417)
Samantha Loutet, University of New Brunswick, Biological Sciences, Saint John, NB, Canada and Kimberley Davies, University of New Brunswick, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Saint John, NB, Canada
 
Robust Machine Learning for Dolphin Whistle Classification across Acoustic Environments (2008135)
Yujin Nakagawa1, Tomonari Akamatsu2, Hiroshi Ohizumi3, Yayoi Yoshida4, Mayu I. Ogawa5, Daisuke Matsuoka1 and Takero Yoshida1, (1)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Tokai University, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, Japan, (4)University of Human Environments, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime, Japan, (5)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Temporal Patterns in South Georgia Zooplankton: Ecological Insights from a Moored Echosounder (2009178)
Tracey Dornan, British Antarctic Survey, Ecosystems, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sophie Fielding, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Geraint Tarling, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Claire M Waluda, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Ecosystems, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
CAB Technology: Near Real-Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Mitigation and Noise Measurement (2015004)
Chloe Malinka1, Samuel Tabbutt2, Alex Brown1, Madalina Matei1, Courtney Ogilvy3, Dom Tollit3, Cormac Booth1 and Jason Wood2, (1)SMRU Consulting, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)SMRU Consulting, Friday Harbor, United States, (3)SMRU Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
 
Spatial Distribution and Seasonal Variation in Whale Prey Concentration from Glider-based Acoustics (2019335)
Andréa Ferreira Cussolim Mesquita and Kimberley Davies, University of New Brunswick, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Saint John, NB, Canada
 
In-situ Behavioral Responses of Mesopelagic Organisms to Airgun Operations Measured with an AUV-mounted Split-beam Echosounder (2019967)
Camille Wardlaw, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, United States; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cambridge, United States, Andone C Lavery, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Oceanography, Corvallis, United States and Julien Bonnel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Physical Laboratory, La Jolla, United States
 
HOLOtag: A plankton imaging tag to reveal key movement drivers of ocean giants (2026475)
Lilian Lieber and Alex Nimmo-Smith, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
 
Spatiotemporal variability in U.S. Mid-Atlantic zooplankton, pelagic fishes, and marine mammals revealed from an ecoglider-based monitoring program (2028803)
Grace Saba1, Lori M Garzio2, Delphine Spickler Mossman1, Laura Nazzaro1 and Josh T Kohut1, (1)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (2)Rutgers Unversity, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Using AUV Data to Estimate the Detectability of Telemetry Signals on a Coastal Reef with Significant Interference (2029791)
Dr. Frank McQuarrie, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Department of Marine Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Clifton Brock Woodson, University of Georgia, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering, Athens, GA, United States and Catherine Richardson Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, UGA, Savannah, United States
 
Nereus: a metachronal swimming robot for swarm-based sensing in turbulent flows (2031765)
Peter Gunnarson1, Nils Tack1, Thales C Silva2, Aditya Iyer2, Nora Ayanian2 and Monica M. Wilhelmus1, (1)Brown University, Center for Fluid Mechanics, School of Engineering, Providence, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Providence, United States
 
Listening to the angels: PAM as a tool for detecting angelshark (Squatina squatina) nursery areas (2036047)
Jacobo Marrero-Pérez1,2, Silvana Neves1 and Alejandro Escánez-Pérez3, (1)Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands., Telde, Spain, (2)Asociación Tonina- Research and Outreach on the Marine Natural Environmen, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, (3)University of La Laguna, Department of Animal Biology, Soil Sciences and Geology, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
 
ShadowMetrics: Sizing and characterizing zooplankton from Shadowgraph images (2038769)
John Horne, University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, United States and Mark T Yamane, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
Baleen Whale Acoustic Presence in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (2041577)
Renea Briner1, Sofie M. Van Parijs2, Mark Baumgartner3, Joel Bell4, Amy Engelhaupt5, Rhett Finley1, Paige Hanson1, Hana Koilpillai1, Xavier Mouy6, Melinda Rekdahl7, Howard Rosenbaum7, Lindsey Transue1, Julianne Wilder2 and Genevieve E. Davis2, (1)Azura Consulting LLC, under contract with NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (2)NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic, Norfolk, United States, (5)Amy Engelhaupt Consulting, Virginia Beach, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (7)Wildlife Conservation Society, Ocean Giants Program, Bronx, United States
 
Using Autonomous Drones as a Tool to Study the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Rocky Intertidal Communities (2044838)
Olivia Bible, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Seattle, United States and Corey Garza, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
Assessing Acoustic Characteristics and Impacts of High-Resolution Geophysical Survey Devices in US Waters (2046201)
Rochelle Gordon1, Rebecca Van Hoeck2, James Caplinger3, Alex Conrad4, Nick Sisson5, Maricarmen Serna6 and Sofie M. Van Parijs2, (1)Azura Consulting LLC, under contract with NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (2)NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (3)National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources, Silver Spring, United States, (4)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Center for Marine Acoustics, Sterling, United States, (5)NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region - Gloucester, Gloucester, United States, (6)IBSS, under contract with NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States
 
Quantifying benthic structures with omnidirectional metrics from 3-D mesh models (2046798)
Evan Garcia, UNITED STATES and Jeffrey S Ellen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
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